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Did Frosk kill ur dog or something
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Did Frosk kill ur dog or something
I think the cute creature (yordles/lillia/yuumi/bard) and monster (fiddle/void/animalistic/Asol/SI) are wanted by two very different crowds. Both types of champions are nonhumans, but they fulfill a diametrically opposite niche.
I agree
Just a question, is the e jump effect just visual? As in it kind of looks like a projectile but it also seems to be instant still, I’m hoping windwall won’t block it basically.
It's just a visual to indicate which target it jumped to. It doesn't affect the gameplay at all. Yasuo's wall does not block it (thank god)!
hey dude u and some rioter who's a 3d artist should try a few games of udyr maybe u will like the champ who knows
I already updated his VFXs, like a few weeks ago. >_>
Hey boss hope you had a great week off.
First off great post, one of the better ones. Covers a lot of topics I care about when it comes to LoL. But the most important one at the moment in my opinion relative to the preseason changes is:
With the curtain starting to get lifted around the pre-season item changes for next year, do you think the changes will heavily impact the power postion philosophy you outlined a while back? On a related yet more specific note, how will the item changes affect scaling? We are seeing early iterations where tanks are getting a "dcap" item. Is the goal to homogenize scaling across champions, roles, and sub-classes an intended target or?
Because that would be really boring and take away even more of the strategic nuances the game has been losing for years now.
Yea this is a great question. We still want different classes and different champs to have distinct power curves.
Even with a "capstone" item, tanks should still be more of a midgame spike and ADC will outscale at 6 items.
There will definitely be a few small shifts in power curves, but homogenization is not a goal and we're going to be making these shifts intentionally.
If you don't mind me asking, where would half-human champions fall in this schedule? Stuff like Camille or Pyke or Brand or Evelynn or Xayah/Rakan, essentialy ones that are human-esque or used to be human but have non-human parts/features/themes.
We would classify all of those as human
Most Vastaya count as non-creature/monsters right? Slapping a tail on Neeko and some feathers on Xayah and Rakan to call them monsters would be a bit of a stretch.
I would call Neeko/Xayah/Rakan humans and Rengar a creature
Out of curiosity where you you put non human humanoids like darkins, robots, vastayans and the undead
Aatrox would be creature where-as Kayne and Varus would be human. Robots would generally be creature unless we are talking about like Camille, Vastayans like Rengar would be creature but Xayah/Rakan/Ahri/Sett would be human. Same for undead, depends on how human vs how monstrous
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I've had discussions with other rioters about niche champs before, and I'm just curious about your thoughts on this going forward: Will there be any changes to how the creature/monster champions will be marketed to create hype?
I ask this because, statistically speaking, the amount of hype building that's been done for the majority of new monster champions has paled in comparison to how the humanoid champions have been hyped and advertised.
Examples:
Ornn: Facebook short
Yuumi: Very short video telling story of Yuumi
Lillia: Small teaser, slightly tied to event, briefly reference in Yone's video
Senna: Massive video, part of music group
Kaisa: Part of music group
Yone: Event-related video
Aphelios: Pre-season video
It's a bit concerning to me because niche champions aren't really given an opportunity to exist in League's universe com...
I mean we did a CG for Fiddlesticks which neither Sett or Aphelios got. At the end of the day that is up to the publishing team not the champions team though
Can I ask where does Dr. Mundo as a Zaun mutated human fit to in your eyes?
Though Humanoid we would put Mundo in the creature/monster category, same as other humanoid monsters like Warwick, Voli, Renekton, Nasus
Is there any monster champion that is not niche? Like, isn't Rengar kinda popular? And Renekton gets a skin yearly for some reason.
Maybe instead of Rek'Sai, you can go in their direction.
We also haven't had a dark monster for a while, so I hope next monster isn't cute like Yuumi and Lillia.
Yeah like I said we didn't make a dark monster this year because we had Fiddle, and we know some players love them. We felt we had much less cute creatures then dark creatures on the roster as well when we started working on Yuumi
Do you guys have a similar philosophy when choosing which regions a champ should be from, since I noticed this year we had a large amount of Ionian releases so far
No, we generally explore arhetypes first that match gameplay designs and then we figure out which regions they fit best in later in the process
Question for you Reav3, where do yordles factor in to the creature vs human spectrum? I feel like they'd end up in the more creature end of it, but just wanted to ask about it
Yordle would be in the creature camp, and yes we know we need to make another Yordle soon
LEC observers smurfing this year
thanks :)
I also feel like champion remakes should also count to some degree.
Fiddlesticks and Volibear both went from 'comic' style to a more serious look. The goal with Fiddlesticks was literally to make him as scary as possible. They are both now basically as far away from 'hot generic girl' as imaginable, at least for me.
VGUs totally count when we look at our year roadmap. We still want to make monsters and creatures we just make less of them since they are more niche and when we look at the years roadmap we include VGUs. That being said we have made it a goal to have at least one non-human new champ a year, and we might do more then 1 in a year where we didnt also do VGUs on monster champs. Yuumi was the non-human for 2019 and Lillia is the non-human for 2020. For 2020 though we already knew we were going to ship both Volibear and Fiddle so there wasnt that much room for more monster/creature champs, though we still made Lillia. One of the reasons we chose to make Lillia a whimsical/cute creature was to contrast Voli and Fiddle since we were doing 3 creatures/monster champs in a row. If Shyvana had won the VGU poll, for example, we might have done a new monster champ this year. TL:DR we still want to make creature/monster champs but less since they are niche, and VGUs count towards the amount we m...
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I just disenchanted Overlord Malzahar about 3 days ago.
I wanna slap myself so hard.
rip :x
OUR TIME HAS COME
OBLIVION AWAITS
The Q is really good, never realised it was so wide, so massive improvement in clarity. The E however should look more like spaceaids and less like a glowing orb.
I tried to get closer to his ability icon design. :C
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Yup! It indicates each tick of damage.
Is it just for his classic skin /u/RiotSirhaian?
All skins~!